Literary Theory

The twentieth century with its unprecedented advances in technology and scientific understanding saw the birth of a distinctively new and modern ...

What are the various atmospheres or moods that the reading of literary works can trigger? Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has long argued that the function o...

A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtuall...

Postmodern revisions of fairy tales have influenced several discourses and disciplines especially during the second half of the twentieth century. ...

This ground-breaking study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the ...

How did the idea of the imagination impact Romantic literature and science?2018 Winner, Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize, The International Confer...

The concept of culture industry leads a double life. On the one hand, it appears as transparent, being used widely and freely in reference to a bra...

L''Intime epistolaire (1850-1900): genre et pratique culturelle is a study of private letters by eight Nineteenth-Century French authors-Flaubert, ...

The present anthology is a collection of fifteen research papers which critically explore the multiple dimensions of contemporary literary theory. ...

The present book is a study of Platonic idealism as it can play out in daily life. It buttresses its defense of the Platonic through reference both...

In accordance with the notion that identity is absolutely central to ontological and discursive practices, this volume explores a multiplicity of w...

Hesychius 5th(?)-century Greek lexicon is a very important survivor of ancient learning, including fragments of Greek literature and offering mater...

The essays in this collection discuss how the city is textualized, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, an...

This volume examines the crucial relationship between literature and ethics, as it has developed and changed from the late medieval period to the p...

When we think about what it is we do in academic literary studies, we do so taking account of time the time of the institution in which this disci...

Raymond Williams was a pioneering scholar of cultural and society, and one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century. In this, a co...